Professor Patrick Godfrey

Professor Patrick Godfrey
BSc(Lond), FREng, FICE, FInstPet

Professor of Systems Engineering

Office 0.37b
Queen's Building,
University Walk, Clifton BS8 1TR
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Tel. +44 (0) 7738 44 8156
patrick.godfrey@
bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Systems thinking applied to complex engineering topics such as: infrastructure design, operations and management; uncertainty, risk, value and safety management and more recently systems for the built environment and sustainability.

Biography

Patrick Godfrey is Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Bristol, and Director of the Systems Centre and the EPSRC Industrial Doctorate Centre in Systems at University of Bristol and University of Bath.

Patrick has for most of his career been a Director of a large consulting engineering company - Halcrow, where he specialised in the design of offshore oil and gas structures and more recently developed an innovation leadership position pioneered new ways of thinking about and managing the complete life cycle of large construction projects by developing the interface between business and engineering and using a 'soft systems ...

Recent publications

Dunford, C, Yearworth, M, York, D & Godfrey, P 2013, ‘A View of Systems Practice: Enabling Quality in Design’. Systems Engineering, vol 16., pp. 134-151
Godfrey, PS, Allan, N, Yin, Y & Cantle, N 2013, ‘A review of the use of complex systems applied to risk appetite and emerging risks in ERM practice’. British Actuarial Journal, vol Volume 18 Part 1., pp. 1-72

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